autopkgtest-xenlvm: installation fails if hostname is not in DNS?

Ian Jackson ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon Oct 17 20:54:32 UTC 2011


Timo Juhani Lindfors writes ("autopkgtest-xenlvm: installation fails if hostname is not in DNS?"):
> Could we just replace the use of adnshost with "getent host"? It does
> the lookup using gethostbyname() which will use whatever is configured
> in /etc/nsswitch.conf instead of hardcoding DNS use.

Yes, that would be fine.  I don't have a working Xen setup now to run
a test but the obvious replacement rune ought to work.

Ian.



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